Estimating climate change and mental health impacts in Canada: A cross-sectional survey protocol.

ABSTRACT: Climate change has severe and sweeping impacts on mental health. Although research is burgeoning on mental health impacts following climate and weather extremes, less is known about how common these impacts are outside of extreme events. Existing research exploring the prevalence of psychosocial responses to climate change primarily examines university students and uses non-random sampling methods. Herein, our protocol outlines an approach to data collection, processing, and analysis to estimate the population prevalence, magnitude, and distribution of mental health responses to climate change in Canada. A cross-sectional survey of youth and adults aged 13 years and older in Canada will be administered over the course of one year. The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to com

SUBMITTER: Harper SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10566728 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature